-_jē, -ji noun
( -es )
Etymology: Middle English genealogie, from Middle French, from Late Latin genealogia, from Greek, from genea race, family + -logia -logy — more at kin
1. : an account or history of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors or from older forms : an enumeration of ancestors and their descendants in the natural order of succession
2. : regular descent of a person, family, or group of organisms from a progenitor or older form : pedigree , lineage
3. : a study of family pedigrees and the methods of investigation of them
4. : an account of the descent of property with respect to its previous owners